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I don't doubt you, but it clearly wasn't enough of an investment in cybersecurity for the UK's flagship, national library to be knocked offline for months with no end in sight.

This is less about the pay of any individual working there, but a culture of underinvestment which the UK public sector has been undergoing for the past 15 years.

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>> culture of underinvestment which the UK public sector has been undergoing for the past 15 years.

It's going on for much longer than that. It's hard to think of a time when there was investment. It's also hard to think of a time when the individuals and teams who could have prevented this would be given the respect that they deserve. This is a problem in the UK that extends beyond the UK public sector because a lot of the management in large organisations has some cultural similarities.

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